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Malakand Field Expedition

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{{War|name=Malakand Field Expedition |dates= 7 August-6 December 1897 |image=Malakandmap.jpg |location= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malakand Malakand, NWF] |combatant1=British & Indians |combatant2=Various Swat Valley tribes |result= <br>Submission of tribes |medal=<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Medal India General Service Medal (1895-1902)]<br>Clasps: Malakand 1897
|category=[[:Category:North West Frontier Campaigns 1849-1908|North West Frontier Campaigns 1849-1908]]}}
== Summary ==
Increasing unrest culminated in a general uprising under a Pashtun fakir named Saidullah. The British forces at Malakand Camp and Chakdara were attacked but were relieved by forces from [[Nowshera]]. The Malakand Field Force fought a series of actions pushing into the Swat and Mohmand Valleys.
== Earlier Actions ==
See also [[Battle of Malakand Camp 1897]] and [[Battle of Chakdara]]. <br>These two actions resulted in the Malakand Field Expedition.
== Malakand Field Force ==
''Commanded by [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101031930/ [Bindon Blood|Maj Gen Sir Bindon Blood KCB]]''<br>
'''First Brigade'''<br>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_Meiklejohn Brig Gen W.H.Meiklejohn CB CMG]''
*[[50th Regiment of Foot|1st Batt Royal West Kent Regt]]
*2 Sections Native Field Hospitals<br>
== External Links links ==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Frontier_(military_history)#1878-1898 Wikipedia - North West Frontier Military History]<br>[http://www.antiquesatoz.com/stephenherold/nwfrontc.htm NWF Expeditions]<br>[http://bookswww.googlequeensroyalsurreys.coorg.uk/reg_in_india/india33_1.html Malakand Field Force] Queensroyalsurreys.org ==== Historical books?idonline =SRwabd8SRVwC&pg=PA9&dq=Contents+malakand=*[http://www.archive.org/stream/storyofmalakandf00chur#PPA9page/n7/mode/2up ''The Story of the Malakand Field Force''] by Winston L Spencer Churchill.1916 First published 1898 Archive.org (A portrait of Maj Gen Bindon Blood KCB provides a frontpiece to this edition):[https://archive.org/details/rovingcommissino001321mbp/page/n7 ''A Roving Commission My Early Life''] by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill 1930 Archive.org. He arrived in India 1896,M1 Google as an officer with the 4th Hussars, who were based in [[Bangalore]]. He took leave from his regiment to join the Malakand Field Force as a correspondent. He resigned from the Army and left India 1899.:[https://archive.org/details/churchillsfirstw0000coug_i7d1/mode/2up ''Churchill's first war : young Winston and the fight against the Taliban''] by Con Coughlin 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontiercampaign00dunmrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''A frontier campaign: a narrative of the operations of the Malakand and Buner field forces, 1897-1898''] by the Viscount Fincastle and P. C. Eliott-Lockhart 2nd edition 1898 Archive.org*[http://www.archive.org/stream/campaignsonnorth00nevi#page/n5/mode/2up ''Campaigns on the North-west Frontier''] by Hugh Lewis Nevill 1912. Archive.org. “The Operations of the Malakand Field Force” commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/campaignsonnorth00nevi#page/230/mode/2up page 231]*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesonservic00hobdiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Sketches on service during the Indian frontier campaigns of 1897''] by Major E.A.P. Hobday. Containing fifty-seven full page engravings from original drawings, and fourteen photographic portraits of the commanding officers and their staffs. 1898 Archive.org*[https://kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/isacke- diaries-1897-part-5/ ''Isacke Diaries (1897 part 5)''] Handwritten online document, 94 pages. This final part of the 1897 Isacke diary covers the period 1 August until 31 December. It describes Hubert Isacke's involvement in the Malakand Field Force Expedition of July-August 1897 and also describes a long period of illness or injury and hospitalisation in India. The Story long voyage home includes a stop at Suez. King’s College London Collections: The Serving Soldier. He appears to have been an Officer in the [[50th Regiment of Foot|1st Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)]].<br />*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesonservic00hobdiala#page/14/mode/2up Siege of Malakand and Relief of the Chakdarra] archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n7/mode/2up ''Four Score Years and Ten: Sir Bindon Bloodʼs Reminscences''] by General Sir Bindon Blood, Representative Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers 1933. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5049/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file] where images have been rotated. Archive.org. Born 1842, he went to India in 1871, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n65/mode/2up page 47]. Commanded Malakand Field Force1897 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n309/mode/2up page 288].
== Recommended Reading ==
Campaigns of the North-West Frontier by Capt H.L.Nevill DSO 1916 <br>Reprinted by The Naval & Military Press Ltd 2005 <br>ISBN 1-845741-87-0<br>
''"The Story of The Malakand Field Force"'' by Winston S. Churchill <br>ISBN 1-60450-223-1<br> ISBN 978-1-60450-223-7
[[Category:Malakand Field Expedition| Malakand Field Expedition]]
[[Category:North West Frontier Campaigns 1849-1908|Malakand Field Expedition 1897]][[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Malakand Field Expedition 1897]]
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